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From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: Roy Lemmon <roy@roylemmon.com>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: guix installation on nixos
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2019 13:47:53 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190213184753.GA21003@jasmine.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH5rZC4ytwpum+Cg9bsSzQurnUE8h6Msuo-no0ESCU_79uSgDw@mail.gmail.com>

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On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 04:09:17PM +0000, Roy Lemmon wrote:
> I am then following the binary installation instructions. As root I then
> try to test by running
> 
> guix package -i hello
> 
> However rather than install the small hello package, guix is installing a
> large number of dependencies such as gcc etc. It is taking a long time. IS
> this normal ?

It sounds like binary substitutes have not been authorized yet, so Guix
is building everything from source.

https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_node/Substitutes.html

> I am also having trouble setting up the environment for running guix as
> non-root user.

What kind of trouble are you having?

PS — If you have access to IRC Freenode, find us in #guix for
lower-latency troubleshooting.

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  reply	other threads:[~2019-02-13 18:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-02-13 16:09 guix installation on nixos Roy Lemmon
2019-02-13 18:47 ` Leo Famulari [this message]
2019-02-13 19:03 ` Guy fleury
2019-02-14 16:04   ` Roy Lemmon
2019-02-14 18:08     ` Guy fleury
2019-02-14 18:39     ` Guy fleury
2019-02-15 13:13       ` Roy Lemmon
2019-02-15 15:49     ` Leo Famulari
2019-02-15 16:03       ` Roy Lemmon
2019-02-15 16:19         ` Leo Famulari

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